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LABIAT-E. (MINT FAMILY.) 
nearly as in the two preceding. — Clusters few-flowered, loose, 
one-sided, with few and mostly ovate bracts resembling the leaves. 
(Name from jAeXt(rcrct, a bee; the flowers yielding abundance of 
honey.) 
1. M. officinalis, L. (Common Balm.) Upright, branch¬ 
ing; leaves broadly ovate, crenate-toothed, petioled, more or less 
hairy. 1J. — Escaped from gardens to the road-sides in some places. 
Aug. — Plant exhaling the odor of lemons ; the corolla white or 
cream-color. 
20. PRUNELLA, L. Self-heal. 
Calyx tubular-bell-shaped, somewhat 10-nerved and veiny, flat 
tened on the upper side, naked in the throat, closed in fruit, 2- 
lipped ; the upper lip broad and flat, truncate, with 3 short teeth , 
the lower 2-cleft. Corolla rather contracted at the throat and 
dilated at the lower side just beneath it, 2-lipped ; the upper lip 
erect, arched, entire ; the lower reflexed-spreading, 3-cleft, the 
lateral lobes oblong ; the middle one rounded, concave, finel) 
toothed. Stamens 4, ascending under the upper lip : filaments 
2-toothed at the apex, the lower tooth bearing the anther. An¬ 
thers approximate in pairs, their cells diverging. —Low perenni¬ 
als, with nearly simple stems, and 6-flowered clusters of flowers 
sessile in the axils of rounded and bract-like membranaceous per 
sistent floral leaves, imbricated in a capitate spike. (Name sai 
to be taken from the German braune, a disease of the throat lor 
which this plant was a reputed remedy.) 
1. P. vulgaris, L. (Common Self-heal or Heal-all) 
Leaves ovate-oblong, entire or toothed, petioled, hairy or smoot us 
corolla (violet or flesh-color) not twice the length of the ca v x ' 
Woods and fields, common. Aug. — Plant 8 f -12 ; high; floral lea\ e 
concave, short-pointed, tinged with purple. 
21. SCUTELLARIA, L. Skullcap. 
Calyx bell-shaped, gibbous, 2-lipped ; the lips entire ; the up 
per consisting of the 2 lateral sepals, deciduous after flowering* 
when the calyx is closed by the arched and separate upper &e P a 
applied to the lower lip like a lid. Corolla with an elongate 
tube, dilated at the throat; the upper lip arched, entire or near v 
so ; the middle lobe of the lower dilated and spreading, convex, 
lateral lobes often connected with the upper lip. Stamens 4, as- 
